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S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction Reference architectures High-level design and best practices What's new in Cloudera Base Deployment topology Sizin...

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire

8 minute read

Introduction Create, discover, login Efficiency - zpools on SoliFire vs global SolidFire efficiencies Comparison with XFS and BTRFS ...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire

8 minute read

Introduction Create, discover, login Efficiency - zpools on SoliFire vs global SolidFire efficiencies Comparison with XFS and BTRFS ...

ZFS with NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

Introduction What is E-Series anyway Easy storage management Conclusion

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

GA of SolidFire 12.7

1 minute read

SolidFire and eSDS (containerized SolidFire for 3rd party x86 servers) version 12.7 was released in late October, but I haven't blogged about it.

NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

less than 1 minute read

This week NetApp released BeeGFS CSI driver v1.4.0 which adds support for newer Kubernetes and BeeGFS.

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

NetApp Trident v22.07.0 for ARM64

1 minute read

I had thought the posts I wrote about Trident on ARM64 were enough to get almost everyone going, but it seems it's not hard to get stuck.

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

TensorStore with BeeGFS

3 minute read

TensorStore is a new C++ and Python library that provides a uniform API for reading and writing n-dimensional data.

End of Availability for SolidFire

3 minute read

This week NetApp released product communique CPC-00467 (NetApp support portal login required) on end of availability of SolidFire.

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction Considerations Create configuration options Choice of query tool Show available options Query capacity range Manual selection of ...

Milvus with SolidFire and E-Series

6 minute read

WTF is Milvus Storage-related stuff Meta storage (etcd) Logs and queues Object store Storage efficiency High availabi...

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

13 minute read

HDFS Durability and External Protected Storage Does everyone need RF2 HDFS Erasure Coding Compression NFS gateway Snapsho...

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

GA of SolidFire 12.5

1 minute read

SolidFire and eSDS (containerized SolidFire for 3rd party x86 servers) version 12.5 just came out.

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

Trident CSI REST API

10 minute read

Why access Trident API Controller routes Trident resources Expose the Trident REST API Examples What about it Appendix: List of Trident Resour...

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

13 minute read

Introduction Use cases Getting started Options in a mixed environment Deploy and use BeeGFS CSI Data protection Summary Demo

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

SolidFire highlights from NetApp INSIGHT 2021

2 minute read

In the case you missed NetApp INSIGHT 2021 and want to catch up with latest SolidFire developments, I recommend to consider some of the following sessions.

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

Monitor SolidFire with SNMP

28 minute read

NOTICE: any and all credentials and tokens on this page are samples, not leaked.

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire Maintenance Mode

3 minute read

Maintenance Mode is a relatively new SolidFire feature that takes a node in and out of the neutral. In other words, it nicely moves a node's services to rema...

GA of NetApp Trident v21.04

6 minute read

What Upgrade procedure Before Out with the old, in with the new Verify success Trident for ARM64 and other non-AMD64 ar...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

3 minute read

In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

NetApp StorageGRID for Vertica EON Mode

8 minute read

WTF is EON Mode What do I need to do to get Vertica EON Mode work with StorageGRID TLS certificate for HTTPS IP address for S3 API endp...

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

solid-rancher

less than 1 minute read

solid-rancher is a Github repo I created to organize and enrich information related to Rancher on SolidFire (and NetApp HCI in general).

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solidfire

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire

8 minute read

Introduction Create, discover, login Efficiency - zpools on SoliFire vs global SolidFire efficiencies Comparison with XFS and BTRFS ...

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

GA of SolidFire 12.7

1 minute read

SolidFire and eSDS (containerized SolidFire for 3rd party x86 servers) version 12.7 was released in late October, but I haven't blogged about it.

End of Availability for SolidFire

3 minute read

This week NetApp released product communique CPC-00467 (NetApp support portal login required) on end of availability of SolidFire.

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

GA of SolidFire 12.5

1 minute read

SolidFire and eSDS (containerized SolidFire for 3rd party x86 servers) version 12.5 just came out.

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

SolidFire highlights from NetApp INSIGHT 2021

2 minute read

In the case you missed NetApp INSIGHT 2021 and want to catch up with latest SolidFire developments, I recommend to consider some of the following sessions.

Monitor SolidFire with SNMP

28 minute read

NOTICE: any and all credentials and tokens on this page are samples, not leaked.

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire Maintenance Mode

3 minute read

Maintenance Mode is a relatively new SolidFire feature that takes a node in and out of the neutral. In other words, it nicely moves a node's services to rema...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

3 minute read

In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

Helpful waste of time

2 minute read

Introduction Update 1 (2023/08/30) Update 2 (2025/05/03) Update 3 (2025/06/07) FAQs

solid-rancher

less than 1 minute read

solid-rancher is a Github repo I created to organize and enrich information related to Rancher on SolidFire (and NetApp HCI in general).

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eseries

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction Reference architectures High-level design and best practices What's new in Cloudera Base Deployment topology Sizin...

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

11 minute read

What is a volume created by Volume Copy operation How does it work? Progress Reserve size Reserve location Priority Automating Volume Copy A...

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

ZFS with NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

Introduction What is E-Series anyway Easy storage management Conclusion

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

less than 1 minute read

This week NetApp released BeeGFS CSI driver v1.4.0 which adds support for newer Kubernetes and BeeGFS.

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

TensorStore with BeeGFS

3 minute read

TensorStore is a new C++ and Python library that provides a uniform API for reading and writing n-dimensional data.

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction Considerations Create configuration options Choice of query tool Show available options Query capacity range Manual selection of ...

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

13 minute read

HDFS Durability and External Protected Storage Does everyone need RF2 HDFS Erasure Coding Compression NFS gateway Snapsho...

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

13 minute read

Introduction Use cases Getting started Options in a mixed environment Deploy and use BeeGFS CSI Data protection Summary Demo

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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e-series

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

less than 1 minute read

This week NetApp released BeeGFS CSI driver v1.4.0 which adds support for newer Kubernetes and BeeGFS.

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

TensorStore with BeeGFS

3 minute read

TensorStore is a new C++ and Python library that provides a uniform API for reading and writing n-dimensional data.

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction Considerations Create configuration options Choice of query tool Show available options Query capacity range Manual selection of ...

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

13 minute read

HDFS Durability and External Protected Storage Does everyone need RF2 HDFS Erasure Coding Compression NFS gateway Snapsho...

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

13 minute read

Introduction Use cases Getting started Options in a mixed environment Deploy and use BeeGFS CSI Data protection Summary Demo

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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s3

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

What is MinIO up to these days?

12 minute read

"Adjustments" Latest and greatest: "breaking changes" Are you telling me there's a chance? Thoughts Risk and commercial ...

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction Reference architectures High-level design and best practices What's new in Cloudera Base Deployment topology Sizin...

NetApp StorageGRID on VMware

19 minute read

Introduction Network Servers StorageGRID load balancer OS Storage Flash tier NL-SAS tier DDP vs RAID Gro...

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

3 minute read

In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

NetApp StorageGRID for Vertica EON Mode

8 minute read

WTF is EON Mode What do I need to do to get Vertica EON Mode work with StorageGRID TLS certificate for HTTPS IP address for S3 API endp...

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backup

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

3 minute read

In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

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api

Project Longhorny

9 minute read

Introduction What exactly does Longhorny do? Longhorny walk-through Site-level actions Conclusion Demo

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

Trident CSI REST API

10 minute read

Why access Trident API Controller routes Trident resources Expose the Trident REST API Examples What about it Appendix: List of Trident Resour...

SolidFire Maintenance Mode

3 minute read

Maintenance Mode is a relatively new SolidFire feature that takes a node in and out of the neutral. In other words, it nicely moves a node's services to rema...

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

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monitoring

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

Monitor SolidFire with SNMP

28 minute read

NOTICE: any and all credentials and tokens on this page are samples, not leaked.

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

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trident

NetApp Trident v22.07.0 for ARM64

1 minute read

I had thought the posts I wrote about Trident on ARM64 were enough to get almost everyone going, but it seems it's not hard to get stuck.

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

Trident CSI REST API

10 minute read

Why access Trident API Controller routes Trident resources Expose the Trident REST API Examples What about it Appendix: List of Trident Resour...

GA of NetApp Trident v21.04

6 minute read

What Upgrade procedure Before Out with the old, in with the new Verify success Trident for ARM64 and other non-AMD64 ar...

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storagegrid

NetApp StorageGRID on VMware

19 minute read

Introduction Network Servers StorageGRID load balancer OS Storage Flash tier NL-SAS tier DDP vs RAID Gro...

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

NetApp StorageGRID for Vertica EON Mode

8 minute read

WTF is EON Mode What do I need to do to get Vertica EON Mode work with StorageGRID TLS certificate for HTTPS IP address for S3 API endp...

Back to top ↑

csi

NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

less than 1 minute read

This week NetApp released BeeGFS CSI driver v1.4.0 which adds support for newer Kubernetes and BeeGFS.

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

NetApp Trident v22.07.0 for ARM64

1 minute read

I had thought the posts I wrote about Trident on ARM64 were enough to get almost everyone going, but it seems it's not hard to get stuck.

Trident CSI REST API

10 minute read

Why access Trident API Controller routes Trident resources Expose the Trident REST API Examples What about it Appendix: List of Trident Resour...

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

13 minute read

Introduction Use cases Getting started Options in a mixed environment Deploy and use BeeGFS CSI Data protection Summary Demo

GA of NetApp Trident v21.04

6 minute read

What Upgrade procedure Before Out with the old, in with the new Verify success Trident for ARM64 and other non-AMD64 ar...

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beegfs

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

BeeGFS filesystem event monitoring with watcher

2 minute read

Maybe you've used an app (or an ONTAP feature) that makes use of the FPolicy API. FPolicy is proven in large and busy NAS environments, and has rich features...

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

TensorStore with BeeGFS

3 minute read

TensorStore is a new C++ and Python library that provides a uniform API for reading and writing n-dimensional data.

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

13 minute read

Introduction Use cases Getting started Options in a mixed environment Deploy and use BeeGFS CSI Data protection Summary Demo

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data protection

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

3 minute read

In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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powershell

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

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python

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

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devops

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

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kubernetes

solid-rancher

less than 1 minute read

solid-rancher is a Github repo I created to organize and enrich information related to Rancher on SolidFire (and NetApp HCI in general).

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hci

SolidFire Maintenance Mode

3 minute read

Maintenance Mode is a relatively new SolidFire feature that takes a node in and out of the neutral. In other words, it nicely moves a node's services to rema...

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

solid-rancher

less than 1 minute read

solid-rancher is a Github repo I created to organize and enrich information related to Rancher on SolidFire (and NetApp HCI in general).

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iscsi

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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automation

Project Longhorny

9 minute read

Introduction What exactly does Longhorny do? Longhorny walk-through Site-level actions Conclusion Demo

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

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performance

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

Oracle TimesTen Classic XE notes

2 minute read

Oracle TimesTen XE Classic v22.1 has quite a few requirements and settings related to memory and storage. Some attributes directly and indirectly related to ...

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

Splunk sizing with shared core HCI vendors

less than 1 minute read

In recent weeks I've done a fair amount of reading about log management solutions, and I have to say the quality of technical material related to Splunk and ...

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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visualization

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

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ontap

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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replication

Project Longhorny

9 minute read

Introduction What exactly does Longhorny do? Longhorny walk-through Site-level actions Conclusion Demo

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grafana

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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snapshot

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restore

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

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elasticsearch

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

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velero

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

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santricity

Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

11 minute read

What is a volume created by Volume Copy operation How does it work? Progress Reserve size Reserve location Priority Automating Volume Copy A...

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

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analytics

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

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storage

Project Longhorny

9 minute read

Introduction What exactly does Longhorny do? Longhorny walk-through Site-level actions Conclusion Demo

Milvus with SolidFire and E-Series

6 minute read

WTF is Milvus Storage-related stuff Meta storage (etcd) Logs and queues Object store Storage efficiency High availabi...

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log

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

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minio

What is MinIO up to these days?

12 minute read

"Adjustments" Latest and greatest: "breaking changes" Are you telling me there's a chance? Thoughts Risk and commercial ...

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

3 minute read

I've written about several ways we can take advantage of MinIO with NetApp E-Series back-ends, for example in the post on MinIO on HashiCorp Nomad with BeeGF...

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influxdb

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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epa

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

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ai

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

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workflow

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windows

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plugin

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

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elk

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

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arm64

NetApp Trident v22.07.0 for ARM64

1 minute read

I had thought the posts I wrote about Trident on ARM64 were enough to get almost everyone going, but it seems it's not hard to get stuck.

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prometheus

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visualize

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hyper-v

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sfc

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

13 minute read

Introduction What's backwards compatible and what's not in InfluxDB 3 Evaluate with E-Series Performance Analyzer Other details Conclusion Appen...

SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready

19 minute read

Intro Other objectives What's new in SFC Rewrite Back-end database change Asynchronous execution Drop SolidFire Python SD...

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vmware

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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sizing

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction Considerations Create configuration options Choice of query tool Show available options Query capacity range Manual selection of ...

Splunk sizing with shared core HCI vendors

less than 1 minute read

In recent weeks I've done a fair amount of reading about log management solutions, and I have to say the quality of technical material related to Splunk and ...

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docker

GA of NetApp Trident v21.04

6 minute read

What Upgrade procedure Before Out with the old, in with the new Verify success Trident for ARM64 and other non-AMD64 ar...

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sync

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audit

SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

SGAC v0.1

3 minute read

How it begun

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linux

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nomad

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

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NetApp

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SolidFire

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ef-series

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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rancher

solid-rancher

less than 1 minute read

solid-rancher is a Github repo I created to organize and enrich information related to Rancher on SolidFire (and NetApp HCI in general).

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hcc

SolidFire Maintenance Mode

3 minute read

Maintenance Mode is a relatively new SolidFire feature that takes a node in and out of the neutral. In other words, it nicely moves a node's services to rema...

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

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kasten

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

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networking

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vsphere

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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splunk

Splunk sizing with shared core HCI vendors

less than 1 minute read

In recent weeks I've done a fair amount of reading about log management solutions, and I have to say the quality of technical material related to Splunk and ...

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database

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

Oracle TimesTen Classic XE notes

2 minute read

Oracle TimesTen XE Classic v22.1 has quite a few requirements and settings related to memory and storage. Some attributes directly and indirectly related to ...

NetApp StorageGRID for Vertica EON Mode

8 minute read

WTF is EON Mode What do I need to do to get Vertica EON Mode work with StorageGRID TLS certificate for HTTPS IP address for S3 API endp...

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ddp

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

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redhat

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observability

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

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ontap s3

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

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proxmox

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efficiency

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

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instaclustr

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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Kubernetes

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

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E-Series

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

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versity

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clone

Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

11 minute read

What is a volume created by Volume Copy operation How does it work? Progress Reserve size Reserve location Priority Automating Volume Copy A...

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zfs

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire

8 minute read

Introduction Create, discover, login Efficiency - zpools on SoliFire vs global SolidFire efficiencies Comparison with XFS and BTRFS ...

ZFS with NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

Introduction What is E-Series anyway Easy storage management Conclusion

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

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netapp storagegrid

NetApp StorageGRID on VMware

19 minute read

Introduction Network Servers StorageGRID load balancer OS Storage Flash tier NL-SAS tier DDP vs RAID Gro...

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terraform

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

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logging

SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding

10 minute read

SolidFire Management Node (aka mNode) is a VM that runs Hybrid Cloud Services (various "management stuff".) Let's say we wanted to collect and analyze those ...

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restic

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

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kopia

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

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snmp

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

Monitor SolidFire with SNMP

28 minute read

NOTICE: any and all credentials and tokens on this page are samples, not leaked.

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ilm

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

14 minute read

Introduction Elasticsearch "snapshots" Snapshot to S3 vs. snapshot to Path Multiple repositories Backup performance Ela...

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hadoop

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction Reference architectures High-level design and best practices What's new in Cloudera Base Deployment topology Sizin...

Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

13 minute read

HDFS Durability and External Protected Storage Does everyone need RF2 HDFS Erasure Coding Compression NFS gateway Snapsho...

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caching

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hashicorp

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

4 minute read

While reading the excellent article Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad (2021) it occurred to me I spotted some of the same advantages while working on ...

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k8s

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

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consistency group

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vector

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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netapp hci

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provider

SolidFire Provider for Terraform

less than 1 minute read

The Provider is now available from the official Terraform registry. This means we no longer need to download and build it manually. It is also easy to use it...

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nginx

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kanister

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

11 minute read

Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

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registry

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container registry

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hcicollector

Announcing HCICollector v0.7

6 minute read

What's new in HCICollector v0.7 Improvements Setbacks What's next for HCICollector Unsolvable NetApp Trident Download HCI...

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dr

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cloudsync

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cloud sync

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security

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alluxio

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ram cache

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ansible

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parquet

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spot.io

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kafka

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capacity

EConfig v2

5 minute read

WTF is EConfig? What's new How I use EConfig DDP BeeGFS Troubles Conclusion Appendix A - BeeGFS sizer

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

less than 1 minute read

NOTE: the Web site with this tool was improved and updated on 2024/04/19, so some details below may differ from current functionality

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction Considerations Create configuration options Choice of query tool Show available options Query capacity range Manual selection of ...

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compression

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

5 minute read

Following my previous post on TensorStore with BeeGFS I thought I should revisit another item from my lengthy to-do list: filesystem compression.

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hybrid cloud

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DevOps

Like Flask, but with PowerShell

6 minute read

PowerShell (still) rocks PowerShell-based services Some ideas and use cases De-skill Kubernetes operations Provide RBAC to PowerShell...

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ransomware

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Kasten

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

4 minute read

Backup repository choices for Kasten with E-Series Veeam Repository S3 bucket NFS share Which one to use? Cost and performance Se...

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gateway

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version

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object store

Use ONTAP S3 as backup destination for Velero

3 minute read

Update (2024/06): I haven't tested this yet, but it seems after Velero AWS Plugin v1.9, ONTAP S3 users can no longer use Velero. One workaround for this is t...

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indexing

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sql server

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data

SolidBackup with Kopia

14 minute read

Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

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embedding

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

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qos

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How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

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Like Flask, but with PowerShell

6 minute read

PowerShell (still) rocks PowerShell-based services Some ideas and use cases De-skill Kubernetes operations Provide RBAC to PowerShell...

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duplicati

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

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In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

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SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage

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In the previous post I explained how SolidFire's built-in backup/restore to/from S3 works and how we can automate it. This post is about doing less automatio...

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SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

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Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

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HDFS Durability and External Protected Storage Does everyone need RF2 HDFS Erasure Coding Compression NFS gateway Snapsho...

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data management

The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire

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Kubernetes-native RBAC S3 Object Lock support "Officialized" (Kanister) blueprints for SQL Server and PostgreSQL Operator aka PGO OpenStack and vSph...

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apptainer

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ZFS with NetApp E-Series

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Introduction What is E-Series anyway Easy storage management Conclusion

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password

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ssd

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flash

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Cloud Sync

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CloudSync

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ELK

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

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Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

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Trident

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CSI

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unmap

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

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A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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rethin

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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b2

SolidBackup with Kopia

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Objectives and tools Steps to set up backup with Kopia Steps on OS and SolidBackup Steps related to Kopia Ensuring SolidBackup an...

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snapshot volume

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ubuntu

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire

8 minute read

Introduction Create, discover, login Efficiency - zpools on SoliFire vs global SolidFire efficiencies Comparison with XFS and BTRFS ...

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hooks

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Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

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openapi

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

less than 1 minute read

If you want to develop or automate E-Series but aren't always connected, you may want to work offline with Swagger API files.

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mcp

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knn

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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similarity

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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windows admin center

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github

Muddying the gh-pages waters

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I've done my fair share of googling and was surprised to see there are so many complex ways to use Github pages.

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dark mode

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certificate

Helpful waste of time

2 minute read

Introduction Update 1 (2023/08/30) Update 2 (2025/05/03) Update 3 (2025/06/07) FAQs

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postman

Helpful waste of time

2 minute read

Introduction Update 1 (2023/08/30) Update 2 (2025/05/03) Update 3 (2025/06/07) FAQs

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fibre channel

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

6 minute read

If you search for "iSCSI vs FC performance" it's not easy to find a recent like-for-like comparison from enterprise vendors. I've been puzzled by this and I ...

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Splunk sizing with shared core HCI vendors

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cloud backup service

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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cloud backup

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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cbs

NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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NetApp HCI with Cloud Backup Service

7 minute read

NetApp Cloud Backup Service backs up your ONTAP data to your Object Storage bucket located in the cloud (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud).

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vertica

NetApp StorageGRID for Vertica EON Mode

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WTF is EON Mode What do I need to do to get Vertica EON Mode work with StorageGRID TLS certificate for HTTPS IP address for S3 API endp...

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duplicacy

SolidBackup with alternative backup clients

1 minute read

As I mentioned in one of previous posts on the topic of SolidBackup, we first use SolidSync to sync SolidFire Source volume(s) to Clone volume(s), and then S...

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alerting

Monitor SolidFire with SNMP

28 minute read

NOTICE: any and all credentials and tokens on this page are samples, not leaked.

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SGAC v0.2.1

1 minute read

Some two months ago I rewrote SGAC and released it as v0.1.

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insight

SolidFire highlights from NetApp INSIGHT 2021

2 minute read

In the case you missed NetApp INSIGHT 2021 and want to catch up with latest SolidFire developments, I recommend to consider some of the following sessions.

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s3tester

Evaluating ONTAP S3 performance with s3tester

4 minute read

ONTAP has had S3 service for a while now. While ONTAP S3 isn't meant to take over large and complex S3 workloads in which NetApp StorageGRID excels, it is mo...

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rest server

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

16 minute read

Introduction How it works Rest Server E-Series Dealing with the risk of storage-side snapshot rotation Storage efficiency Thi...

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rest

Trident CSI REST API

10 minute read

Why access Trident API Controller routes Trident resources Expose the Trident REST API Examples What about it Appendix: List of Trident Resour...

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object lock

SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock

13 minute read

How would we use SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled buckets Practical observations How many S3 objects or accounts do we need ...

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apache

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

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ozone

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

5 minute read

I'm supposed to be resting this week and that hasn't been working out… Still, I'll try to keep this one shorter than the previous two posts from this week.

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milvus

Milvus with SolidFire and E-Series

6 minute read

WTF is Milvus Storage-related stuff Meta storage (etcd) Logs and queues Object store Storage efficiency High availabi...

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lnn

Milvus with SolidFire and E-Series

6 minute read

WTF is Milvus Storage-related stuff Meta storage (etcd) Logs and queues Object store Storage efficiency High availabi...

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Milvus with SolidFire and E-Series

6 minute read

WTF is Milvus Storage-related stuff Meta storage (etcd) Logs and queues Object store Storage efficiency High availabi...

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oracle

Oracle TimesTen Classic XE notes

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Oracle TimesTen XE Classic v22.1 has quite a few requirements and settings related to memory and storage. Some attributes directly and indirectly related to ...

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timesten

Oracle TimesTen Classic XE notes

2 minute read

Oracle TimesTen XE Classic v22.1 has quite a few requirements and settings related to memory and storage. Some attributes directly and indirectly related to ...

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eoa

End of Availability for SolidFire

3 minute read

This week NetApp released product communique CPC-00467 (NetApp support portal login required) on end of availability of SolidFire.

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end of availability

End of Availability for SolidFire

3 minute read

This week NetApp released product communique CPC-00467 (NetApp support portal login required) on end of availability of SolidFire.

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tensorstore

TensorStore with BeeGFS

3 minute read

TensorStore is a new C++ and Python library that provides a uniform API for reading and writing n-dimensional data.

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workers

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watch

BeeGFS filesystem event monitoring with watcher

2 minute read

Maybe you've used an app (or an ONTAP feature) that makes use of the FPolicy API. FPolicy is proven in large and busy NAS environments, and has rich features...

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fsnotify

BeeGFS filesystem event monitoring with watcher

2 minute read

Maybe you've used an app (or an ONTAP feature) that makes use of the FPolicy API. FPolicy is proven in large and busy NAS environments, and has rich features...

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hsm

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

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irods

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

3 minute read

BeeGFS can work with different storage targets, so just like with Spectrum Scale it is possible to create a filesystem that spans across different disk media...

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NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

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This week NetApp released BeeGFS CSI driver v1.4.0 which adds support for newer Kubernetes and BeeGFS.

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reporting

Like Flask, but with PowerShell

6 minute read

PowerShell (still) rocks PowerShell-based services Some ideas and use cases De-skill Kubernetes operations Provide RBAC to PowerShell...

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scripting

Like Flask, but with PowerShell

6 minute read

PowerShell (still) rocks PowerShell-based services Some ideas and use cases De-skill Kubernetes operations Provide RBAC to PowerShell...

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elastic

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

22 minute read

Introduction Environment Elasticsearch performance in Docker Simple Web log indexing workload SIEM indexing workload Time-series database (TSDB)...

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Kanister

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nfs

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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flatcar linux

Zero-out and rethin VMDKs on NFS

5 minute read

A workaround for rethinning Create multiple NFS shares for ESXi Mount NFS shares in ESXi Create a VM with extra data disk on one of NFS shares Ens...

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Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

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traps

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

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custom

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

19 minute read

Introduction Software stack Getting E-Series events and metrics into PRTG Generic probes SNMP walk SNMP traps Custom sens...

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volume group

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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raid1

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

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What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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raid6

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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r10

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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r1

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

6 minute read

What is this about again? Why is RAID 1 on DDP a good idea? Is R1 on DDP really faster? Which workloads can benefit from mixed RAID 1 and RAID 6 vol...

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E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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psu

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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temperature

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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sensors

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

5 minute read

Introduction Power Temperature What does V3.3.0 do for expansion shelves? What's next for EPA? Database Grafana Other wish-...

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Deceptive nvidia-smi output

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I'm curious if I should buy a more expensive GPU so I use nvidia-smi to see how busy the current one is.

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NetApp StorageGRID on VMware

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Introduction Network Servers StorageGRID load balancer OS Storage Flash tier NL-SAS tier DDP vs RAID Gro...

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fast_dedup

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

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dedup

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction What's new with ZFS deduplication ZFS and E-Series Benefits of using ZFS with E-Series Deduplication Compression ...

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incus

ZFS with NetApp E-Series

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Introduction What is E-Series anyway Easy storage management Conclusion

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Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

11 minute read

What is a volume created by Volume Copy operation How does it work? Progress Reserve size Reserve location Priority Automating Volume Copy A...

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volume copy

Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

11 minute read

What is a volume created by Volume Copy operation How does it work? Progress Reserve size Reserve location Priority Automating Volume Copy A...

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harvest

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Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

11 minute read

Introduction Reference architectures High-level design and best practices What's new in Cloudera Base Deployment topology Sizin...

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opea

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

8 minute read

Introduction What is the OPEA project The stack Docker vs. Kubernetes Where's the storage? E-Series storage and solution stack ...

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2025

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aistor

What is MinIO up to these days?

12 minute read

"Adjustments" Latest and greatest: "breaking changes" Are you telling me there's a chance? Thoughts Risk and commercial ...

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opensearch

S3 GO NATS!

16 minute read

Part 1 - S3 vector search: S3 vector search - DIY vs AWS S3 Vectors Part 2 - S3 vector search: S3 GO NATS! (this post)

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